Flash-lighter bell.



F. J. LEYRER & W. C. RANSCHT. FLASH LIGHTER BELL. APPLlCATlON HLED MAY x5, \916.

Patented Mar. 19, 1918.

FREDERICKj J. LEYRER AND WILLIAM C. RANSCHT, OF MILWAUKEE, WISGONSIN,v ASSIGNOZRS TOSPITFIREGAS LIGHTER 00., A CORPORATION OF WISCONSIN.

FLASH-LIGHTER BELL.

I v Specification of Letters Patent. Patented 'Mar. 19, 1918.

Application filed May 15, 1916. Serial No. 97,502.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FREDERICK J. LEYRER and IVILLIAM C. RANsoHT, both citizens of the United States, and residents of Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Flash-Lighter Bells; and we do hereby declare that the foll0wing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The present invention relates to new and useful improvements in flash lighters for gas stoves, more particularly of that type including a lighter burner having lateral jet openings, and a bell disposed over the lighter burner to shield the same and provided with ports in alinement with the jet openings of the burner.

In structures of this type the burner and bell are carried by the supply pipe and the head and bell are usually connected to form substantially a unit.

It is primarily the object of the present invention to provide a means whereby an interlocking relation of the bell and the burner is had to prevent relative rotation of either and thus insure the retention of the various ports in prOper alinement.

It is further an object to provide a lighter burner structure of the class described which is of such simple nature as to permit its ready manufacture and assembly.

With the above and other objects and advantages in view, the invention resides more particularly in the novel combination, arrangement and formation of parts more particularly hereinafter described and more particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional View through a lighter burner constructed in accordance with the present invention, this View being indicated by the line 11 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view through the lighter burner on the line 22 of Fig. 1 and showing a plurality of main stove burners with relation to the head.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary elevational view of the interlocking character of the bell holding plate and the burner sleeve.

Referring now more particularly to the accompanying drawings, 5 designates the upwardly turned end of the supply pipe which is threaded for the reception thereon of a lighter burner, and which is disposed centrally with respect to a plurality of main burners A.

The improved flash lighter burnerincludes a sleeve 6 adapted to threadedly engage on the supply pipe end and having an annular flange 7 at its lower end adapted to seat the centrally depending sleeve portion 8 of the bottom plate 9 of a bell 10. Threaded on the upper end of the sleeve is a cap member 11 having its peripheral portion enlarged and flattened to form nut faces, and centrally provided with a dome portion 11 provided in its side wall with the jet apertures 12. The peripheral portion of this cap bears against the bottom plate 9 of the bell to hold the sleeve portion of said plate between it and the flange 7 of the sleeve, and to prevent relative rotative movement of the plate, the burner sleeve flange 7 is provided with a squared enlargement 13 on its upper side which is adapted to interlockingly fit into a correspondingly squared recess 14 in the lower edge portion of the plate sleeve 8.

The said bottom plate 9 is provided at its periphery with a plurality of upstanding lugs 15 engageable in recesses 16 formed by inwardly offset side portions of the bell body,

this bell body being of a conventional type and being rovided in its sides with ports 18, dispose in alinement with the respective jet apertures 12.

Thus the burner head and bell may be locked together against relative rotation such as would tend to destroy the alinement of the bell ports and jet apertures.

The burner head and bell may thus be handled as a separate unit from the supply pipe and in the various manipulations thereof the proper alinement of the bell ports and jet apertures is retained. Inasmuch as the sleeve 6 is threadedly engaged on the supply pipe, it can upon attachment be readily r0- tated to properly direct the jet apertures of the flash burner with respect to the main burners A, and the sleeve is held in such proper relative position by a lock nut 19 threaded on the supply pipe in advance of the sleeve.

We claim:

In a flash lighter, a burner head sleeve having an annular flange at its lower end engaging the plate portion to hold the sleeves 10 in engagement With each other. i In testimony that We claim the foregoing We have hereunto set our hands at Milwaukee, in'the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin.

adapted to form a seat, an upstanding squared enlargement on the upper side of the flange, a bell member including a bottom plate portion, a dependingsleeve portion upon the plate and seated on said annular flange, said sleeve portion having a rectangular notch cut in its edge to interlockingly engage With said enlargement, and

FREDERICK J. LEYRER. a burner cap threaded on the first sleeve and WILLIAM C. RANSCHT.

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